A year before Fort Worth ISD fired a teacher over her tweets about immigrants, students say she

A year before Fort Worth ISD fired a teacher over her tweets about immigrants, students say she threatened to call the FBI on them

by Chase Karacostas, Texas Tribune


A year before Fort Worth Independent School District fired Georgia Clark over her tweets asking President Donald Trump to “remove the illegals” from her school, former students recall her threatening to report them to the FBI and Secret Service after they criticized the president.

“One day she did threaten us, ‘I'm calling the FBI or Secret Service’ or whatever. We were talking about the president,” said Rigoyosmar Ramirez, 19, who graduated from Amon Carter-Riverside High in May and said he was in Clark’s English class during the 2017-2018 school year. “She said, ‘If you even threaten our president, I can have the Secret Service investigate all of this and have you guys in custody and have y'all tried as adults.'”

He said she directed her comments toward the entire class, which was composed of mostly Hispanic students.

Clark, who was a teacher with Fort Worth ISD since 1989, denied threatening to call the authorities on her students through her lawyer, Brandon Brim.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/16/former-fort-worth-isd-teacher-threatened-call-fbi-students/